How to Use supercontinent in a Sentence

supercontinent

noun
  • This area used to be part of the southern edge of the Pangaea supercontinent.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • Three times in the modern era, the world has been convulsed by fights over the supercontinent and the waters around it.
    — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Beside this rancid ocean, on the shores of a blasted supercontinent, the forests are gone.
    — Peter Brannen, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Pangea may be named after a supercontinent of the past, but she’s built for exploring land and sea in the present day.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The cycle of building and breaking up of supercontinents seems to drive long-term climate trends.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Earth’s land mass was then mostly a single Pangea supercontinent.
    — Jeanne Timmons, New York Times, 22 May 2023
  • And each episode is one of those hotspots that defines both that place, but also, together, defines the whole of the supercontinent.
    — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 3 Mar. 2025
  • For one, the climate might be cooler if the supercontinent forms near a pole, writes Nature News.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
  • There are ancient lava flows from when the Rodinia supercontinent began to rip apart.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023
  • The supercontinent began to break up around 180 million years ago and had a diverse climate across the huge land mass.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Around 230 million years ago, this area was part of the supercontinent Gondwana.
    — Munis Raza, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Then, near the end of the Ordovician, a sweeping climate shift left the supercontinent covered with glaciers.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2021
  • Small cities may be transformed into thriving logistics hubs that would direct the movement of goods around a new supercontinent.
    — Simon Curtis and Ian Klaus, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The dramatic break up of an ancient supercontinent could be behind the planet’s cache of rare pink diamonds.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Over the decades, seismic data revealed that these supercontinents make up about 20% of the mantle-core boundary.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Back then, flowers had not yet developed, and the world’s land was clumped together in a supercontinent called Pangaea.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2018
  • Even great swaths of the wet Gondwana rainforests, the only living link to that primordial supercontinent, have burned.
    — Tishani Doshi, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The study said that very few ankylosaurs had been found from southern Gondwana -- the lower part of the ancient supercontinent Pangea.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The Gulf of Mexico formed about two hundred million years ago, when the supercontinent Pangea split up.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • During this time, the ancient supercontinent Rodinia was breaking apart.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Australia’s theropod fauna could have played a pivotal role in the ecosystems of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Set to premiere in 2028, the new season will dig deeper into the wildlife and landscapes that the supercontinent has to offer.
    — Arushi Jacob, Variety, 25 June 2026
  • During the time Tanyka lived, Earth’s land was joined into the supercontinent Pangaea.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Modern-day Morocco is located where the southern supercontinent Gondwana would have been at the time the stegosaur was alive.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The project of Russia as a self-reliant supercontinent, bestride Europe and Asia, has already failed.
    — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Those three far-apart regions were all next to one another before 175 million years ago, when the supercontinent known as Pangaea broke up.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The amethyst crystals are found in lava flows, which date from the original breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana around 134 million years ago.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • At the time, the planet was dominated by a supercontinent called Pangea, which included a large landmass known as Gondwana.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 July 2024
  • Roughly 1 billion years ago, the Amazon and the Baltics were neighbors on the supercontinent Rodinia.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Did this hunk of rock in front of you get left behind by New Zealand when the last supercontinent split apart, or was it deposited here by a river that hasn’t run in ninety million years?
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024

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